the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac,… — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
“I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts the fun…Sex… — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and… — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get… — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse. — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.” — Mary Astor Copy Share Image
